hi I'm Roman Loyola from Macworld we've got in the new Mac Mini an old Mac Mini
that we have here a very old one very old one this is actually a 2010 but the
design hasn't changed so insides you know we're not gonna worry about that
but the case itself is pretty much the same we have an iPhone 10s just to show
is like scale to give you people watching an idea of the size so but you
had to open it up the new Mac Mini it's still in its shrink wrap you just came
from an Apple meeting yes yeah so I'm gonna take the shrink wrap off of it I
don't know why people shrink wrap anymore but I guess it's - yeah so just
go over the specs real quick like what processor isn't it what ran so this Mac
Mini is the 3.6 gigahertz quad core Core i3 so this is with eight gigabytes of
RAM ddr4 Ram it has a 128 gigabyte SSD and has the Intel UHD graphic 6:30 so I
this is the base this is the base model right it's the server 99 model the base
model because it does come we can open it up because it does come with or you
an option is a six core machine yes and obviously more RAM so the next step up
is a six core but this is the entry-level so like a lot of Apple
products you get this little tab that you pull out and well go and yeah you
real quick this is the paperwork the sticker is more stickers there's always
stickers no they are stickers in here so stickers Mac Mini a little pamphlet here
right and probably guess I'm assuming one power cable and then there's one
power cable yes and the power supply is actually built into the Mac Mini mmm-hmm
so you don't have a break no different just a cable the dark cable the same
little white cable this time used to white and that's that's pretty much it
in the box so yes let's open it up so we'll take
the wraps off of this which is always the the best part of getting a new thing
it's a dark one that's the bottom of obviously is this the first year they're
coming in this color so this is the first year dads in the space gray okay
so here it is next to the all design you put it on top I just want to see if it's
exact same size it's it's pretty much the size so and I notice that on that
there's a corner that's dark it's not like an IR no it's just designed yeah I
think it's just the design right actually that's okay unveils the ports
so they give you one more little thing - yeah - unwrapped so yeah but while we're
here let's just go over the ports so you get so this is the power port the power
supply is built in Ethernet this is a regular 10 gigabit it's art well regular
is one gig doesn't write regular Gigabit Ethernet but I think it said 10 gig was
optional 10 gig is an option you can get a 10 gig off it just does not have 10
gig yeah so for Thunderbolt 3 ports HDMI and 2 USB ports and there's a headphone
jack there is actually a headphone jack well at least the aunt thing at least
they give you some Taipei's yeah and this is a big just a big fan vent okay
yeah and so one question that a lot of people are having is or that least their
plan is to upgrade the random cells yes and I think on the old one that was real
easy to do and from the video from the announcement it kind of made it seem
like it was easy to do this one so the old one you just twisted that thing off
so to open this one up there's an indicator here that you line up with the
dots so of course the open wantest means it's opened and so then
so those the old internals you got the fan the RAM here that you can upgrade no
if you just pull it out then you can put in more RAM super easy yeah it's really
easy there's even a diagram here to show you how to properly put in the ramp and
I believe the storage device that drive is underneath all of this this is the
Bluetooth module but not the only the RAM was upgradable yeah you can't really
I mean if you were willing to take this apart you know you run that risk though
of like not being able to put it back properly but this seemed easy enough -
yeah this one doesn't have any indicators at all actually
Apple says that even though the ram the ram is sodium's they're there so dams
and you can't change the ram after you buy the mac mini but they say it's a
service provider upgrade so in other words they prefer they want you to go to
the Apple store and have them install it they do not want users to go in here and
open it up and install RAM on their own so it's not twisting open easily so it's
not twisting open there's no indicator like on the old Mac Mini I don't see any
apparent screws around or anything okay so first glance it doesn't seem
like it might not be that easy to yourself and Apple is saying they don't
really Apple doesn't really want you to go in there and do it yourself because
that's how they make those dough let's go so what what I was told was that
because of the way the fan and other internals aren't configured they really
want you to bring it to a service provider because they don't want you to
mess up than how and how its constructed and that could lead to you know failing
so we might have to wait till I can I fix the teardown it's right see what
what these the insides look like so yeah it's not it doesn't look like it
it it opens up I've been twisting and it's not budging at all so okay so what
what's coming up but when are you gonna what are you working on now so I'm gonna
be working on a full review of this I'm gonna be running a bunch of benchmarks
lad I need GPU to do some testing with that yeah well we have a GPU that we
will take a look at the Blackmagic a GPU so we'll attach it to this see what kind
of performance we get run some benchmarks compared to some other max
that we have and see how well this perform that Apple said that this is
what five times faster than the previous iMac but of course I read a previous Mac
Mini but of course the previous Mac Mini was a four year old machine yeah so like
I said this has an eighth generation Core i3 integrated graphics graphics
yeah we should see how it compares against IMAX and down what not so
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Tube channel and we'll have more on the Mac Mini coming up after shooting this
video I played around with the bottom of the Mac Mini a little bit more and
figured out how to take off the bottom cap what you need is you need a little
something to pry the cap off so I have this plastic thing and it just kind of
pops off really easily it doesn't actually take a lot of work and then
that gets to the bottom so and they see there are six screws here they're torque
wrenches doesn't require a torque wrench yeah so I use a t6 alright here we go
don't see there's a cable connecting you can see the Bluetooth module to the
motherboard okay so that's one thing you have to try and does it look like it's
soldered in there or is it like a the cable yeah it looks like that it is
connected I can't tell if it's soldered but done in other words it's not easily
accessible memory like the previous one rice and as you can see there's actually
a cage and is it can you see it hidden beneath that can't tell if that's yeah I
can't see so what you need to do is you need to remove this fan in order to
access that so it's a little more difficult than before
cool thanks for the yesterday sure